Quotes About Forgetting Someone

#1. Forgetting someone is like getting over a hundred addictions everyday.

Taylor Swift

#2. People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

Taylor Swift

#3. Sometimes the only way to feel better, when forgetting didn't work, was to talk to someone who knew how bad the thing could be.

Taylor Stevens

#4. You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

Ahmed Mostafa

#6. It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.

Tara Sivec

#7. There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Koji Suzuki

#8. The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.

Gerhard

#10. Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

Jeffrey Panzer

#11. But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;

J. Jack Halberstam

#12. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.

Beth Revis

#13. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had

Nora Roberts

#14. My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Mercedes McCambridge

#15. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.

Jessica Brody

#16. No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

Mary Russell Mitford

#17. Momentarily forgetting how wind works, Lex tried spitting at him. This failed

Gina Damico

#18. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.

Steve Maraboli

#19. The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

Joe Lieberman

#21. You're forgetting something iadala. Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst
a need as vital to the soul as water is to the body.

Colleen Houck

#22. Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.

Alice Bailey

#23. When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#24. The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Doreen Virtue

#25. You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away.

Okey Ndibe

#26. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

John Climacus

#27. When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.

Donna Lynn Hope

#28. Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

Patrick Modiano

#29. After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I'm forgetting about all my problems.'

Lilly Singh

#30. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#31. Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Viktor E. Frankl

#32. A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

Bruce Lee

#33. To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

Matthieu Ricard

#34. Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No.

Neil Gaiman

#35. It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again ...

Carol Shields

#36. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#37. You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Lois Lowry

#38. Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Sara Zarr

#39. Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Iris Murdoch

#40. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway,

#41. When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

Steve Toltz

#42. You can't patch up someone forgetting about you. For the rest of your life you'll always be worrying that they'll forget about you the same way they did before. You'll always know that they'd be a hundred percent fine without you but you wouldn't be a hundred percent fine without them.

Cath Crowley

#43. What's the best part of acting? It's the indescribable feeling of being someone you are and someone your not, all at the same time. Acting is finding a character that's in you, forgetting yourself, and then bringing out this whole other person. Character is all that matters when you're on a stage.

Chris Coppernoll

#44. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

C. JoyBell C.

#45. He entered the city asked a blind man if he had ever heard the name Enkidu, and the old man shrugged and shook his head, then turned away, as if to say, 'It is impossible to keep the names of friends whom we have lost

Herbert Mason

#46. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.

Eric Gamalinda

#47. I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will
a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul ... the bloodiest of mutilations.

Jim Fergus

#48. Forgiveness is a spiritual exercise that has to do with many things, but forgetting is not among them.

Colin Tipping

#49. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.

Shampa Sharma

#50. I am doing it FOR GETTING HER OR FORGETTING HER, i don't know.

Lovely Goyal

#51. I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

Bill Watterson

#52. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

Stig Dagerman

#53. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

#54. It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

Alain De Botton

#55. Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#57. You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.

Malcolm Hulke

#58. She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.

Sylvia Day

#59. Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

Lauren Beukes

#60. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

#61. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams

#62. Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.

Courtney Solomon

#63. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

#64. Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?

Euripides

#65. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

#66. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Kat Von D.

#67. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Abigail Thomas

#68. I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#69. Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#70. Anonymity is grey, forgetting is magnolia.

David Mitchell

#71. Was she not forgetting again how strongly she influenced people?

Virginia Woolf

#72. A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

R.J. Ellory

#73. We live in such fear of puncturing the moment, of forgetting our lines.

Kate Zambreno

#74. It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.

Jodi Picoult

#75. We kept forgetting. And we also couldn't let go.

Nova Ren Suma

#76. I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Eva Longoria

#77. Forgetting ... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself ... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#78. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?

Tablo

#79. Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

Bob Rae

#80. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru)

Carolina De Robertis

#81. Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

Adam Silvera

#82. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Richard Paul Evans

#83. Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.

W. H. Auden

#84. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves

Dathan Auerbach

#85. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

#86. So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

Elton John

#87. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

James Van Der Beek

#88. To fall in love is easy,
but forgetting is required to be crazy.

Debasish Mridha